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Of course spring means ticketing, and between that and the fact that it's April Fools' Day you'll want to stay on your toes. (It takes an especially annoying type of person to pull an April Fools' prank on a Monday.) And speaking of April Fools' pranks, I wish this were one, but sadly it was tweeted on March 29th:

Love 'em or hate 'em, they're here. NYC's #VisionZero Bicycle Network is Now the Nation's Largest! Over 1,200 miles, with almost 120 miles on city streets. Keep an extra eye 👁 out for them 🚴‍♀️(and Motorcyclist) as you drive they are harder to spot. pic.twitter.com/OgNPcteNhj

I'm not sure if the "they're" refers to the bike lanes or to the cyclists themselves, but either way it's quite revealing. Just imagine this in any other context: "School's back in session! Love 'em or hate 'em, but there will be lots of children around, so try not to run them over!" I mean, is it really that hard to put together a throwaway Vision Zero tweet that doesn't dehumanize anybody?

As the weather gets warmer 🌞 the streets get busier. Take an extra second to check your surroundings for pedestrians 🚶‍♀️ and bicyclists 🚲 . Pedestrian have the right of way. #VisionZeropic.twitter.com/8hRvnFsDsB

DUBNER: So, I do know that when you add a lane to a highway, let’s say, it actually doesn’t ease congestion because it draws demand, right?

TROTTENBERG: Induced demand is the phrase you’re looking for.

DUBNER: Right. So is it the case that when you subtract a lane of car traffic and replace it with a bike lane, that actually it does not cause car congestion problems?

TROTTENBERG: I’m happy to say, if you take out that lane but you redesign the street at the same time, you make the traffic move in a more orderly way, you put in turn lanes, and you change the signaling, you can keep the traffic speed some cases better, and a lot of cases sort of the same, while also adding in a safe space for cyclists. And just one of the statistics, where we put in bike lanes, we see huge safety improvements, not only for cyclists, who we consider a vulnerable population on the street, but for pedestrians and for motorists too, because it calms the traffic and it organizes it better.

Imagine that.

And finally, a Staten Island Advance editorial says that instead of having congestion we should just move the Citi Bikes inside:

If you’d like a handy reference guide to all the bankrupt, misleading, and inaccurate “arguments” against congestion pricing, you could do worse than this editorial in a Staten Island rag written by a 70-year-old Giuliani appointee who lives in Bayside https://t.co/lTKQJiWt8s